In interviews with community leaders, lawyers, security specialists and bereaved relatives, the Guardian pieces together how an operation targeting a criminal gang left 122 people dead last October ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A state police operation targeting a major drug gang in Brazil has resulted in the deaths of 132 people in low-income ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person looks on behind a burnt car during a police operation against drug trafficking at the favela do Penha, in Rio de Janeiro, ...

Rio De Janeiro: Just after midnight on October 28, a group of police officers were startled by roughly 20 armed men on motorcycles fleeing the Alemao favela, one of the headquarters of Rio de ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — On Tuesday, police in Rio de Janeiro launched an operation in two of the city’s favelas that left 121 dead, including four police officers, and an unknown number of people wounded.

RIO DE JANEIRO — A massive police raid on a drug gang embedded in low-income neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro that left at least 119 people dead drew protests for excessive force Wednesday and calls ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — About 2,500 Brazilian police and soldiers launched a massive raid on a drug-trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, arresting 81 suspects and sparking shootouts that left at ...